[Clinical consistency in the diagnostic approach to the patient. Notes relating to the use of psychometric procedures in clinical psychiatry].

The authors underline the difficulties of the introduction and use of the psychometric approach in psychiatry. The use of protocols for the standardised evaluation and measurement of psychopathological phenomena is soon revealed to be open to criticism regarding the objective character of the object of the inquiry in psychiatry; at the same time there is an equally legitimate need not only for "forms" but also clinical "contents" without which the doctor's role loses its traditional target.